Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Square foot gardening

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was No consensus. One reference from a reliable source was presented during the discussion, which alleviates in part the concern about the article being unsourced, but cleanup is needed as mentioned in the discussion, and additional reliable sources are needed; thus I will add Template:refimprove. As part of closure I have a) added the single reliable source mentioned below to the article and b) removed the transwiki'd how-to section. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Square foot gardening

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Unsourced article, reads as a "how to" rather than an encyclopedia topic. The entire subject deals with a method proposed by a single book - as such, it is not even a notable neologism. Bigdaddy1981 20:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom Harlowraman 21:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as promotional for one author's ideas. If this became a huge fad that would be another thing. --Dhartung | Talk 22:50, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
• KeepThis type of gardening has actually received a mention in the Canadian Gardening Magazine, Canada's biggest magazine on gardening, here: [1], so it ought to be notable. So this time, it should be fixed to not sound like a how-to-guide, and the bit that's transwikied should be removed.--Kylohk 01:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
• KeepThis is a notable, specific form of raised bed gardening [2]. --araetzsch

— araetzsch (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. .Bigdaddy1981 23:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, but improve the article - As others have noted, the article needs work, but because I've been hearing about "square foot gardening" for years, my general knowledge tells me that the topic is notable. In support of this impression, I find that Google returns 158,000 hits for the phrase "Square foot gardening", including many personal websites (not affiliated with the author) about the topic, such as http://timssquarefootgarden.com/ http://www.annwn.com/garden/squarefoot.shtml, and http://users.aristotle.net/~shicks/sqft/, and at least one fairly active online forum on the topic: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/sqfoot/.--orlady 15:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.